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Volume 39

Public Law 64–295

To repeal section four of the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, known as the forest homestead Act, and for other purposes.

Approved August 8, 1916

Statutory text

An Act

To repeal section four of the Act of Congress approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, known as the forest homestead Act, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That section four of the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to provide for the entry of agricultural lands within forest reserves,” as amended by the Act of February eighth, nineteen

Vol. 34, pp. 234, 883.

hundred and seven (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-four, page eight hundred and eighty-three), and by the Act of July third, nineteen

Vol. 37, p. 188.

hundred and twelve (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-seven, page one hundred and eighty-eight), be, and the same is hereby, repealed. All lands within national forests in Lawrence and Pennington Counties, in South Dakota, shall be and remain subject to all other provisions of the said Act of June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.

Approved, August 8, 1916.

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